• Choice Overload and the Senior Population; Guidelines for a Designer. 

  Flamm, Sara L. (2019-05)

  Much research has been conducted and published regarding choice behavior and the concept that less is more. Too many choices can cause cognitive overload for users, lead to choice paralysis, and negative emotions. Past ...

• A UNITED STATE: Moderation. Diversity. Reciprocity. Equality. Designing mobile technology to support productive online political discourse. 

  Bend, Justin (2019-05)

  I have endeavored upon this thesis work in an attempt to find design solutions to the pressing societal problems of ever-increasing political polarization coupled with widespread dissatisfaction with social media’s effect ...

• The Relationship Between Public Transportation and HSPD-5: Are Public Transportation Agencies the Forgotten Element in NIMS 

  Sullivan, Conrad (2018-11-12)

  ABSTRACT The tragic events that transpired on September 11, 2001 (9/11), resulted in a myriad of changes within the United States that reshaped government agencies and created the Department of Homeland Security (Russell, ...

• A Conceptual Application of Bakhtin’s Dialogic Discourse to Information and Interaction Design of Social Media 

  Popow, Victor (2018-12)

  Background and Purpose: This research explores how humanities – Bakhtin’s dialogical discourse – offer new insights into information and interaction design providing interdisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical ...

• Crowdsourced Alternative Healthcare: Mobile Applications for User-Generated Natural Remedies 

  Uzoma, Ada (2018-12)

  Smartphone applications have the ability to improve population health, mostly because of their widespread use; their rapid technological advancements and updates; and their use of features such as geolocation, video and ...

• Ensuring data integrity and user retention within BANDIT 

  Turner, Brandon (2018)

  Data collection is a vital service completed by the government to help ensure accuracy on a range of issues. Currently the Bird Banding Lab (BBL) is tasked with the collection of bird migratory data across North America. ...

• Integrating Machine Learning into the UX Design Process 

  Ahmed, Tauhid (2018-12)

  The following paper discusses how machine learning is becoming the new user experience tool for designers. Throughout the last decade, machine learning has vastly improved the user experience and human-machine interfacing ...

• Use of Assistive Technology for Cognition Mobile Applications by Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Chemotherapy 

  Rinn, Caitlin (2018-12)

  Difficulty thinking, remembering, and concentrating are common complaints among breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy; however, tools and support for coping with these impairments remain limited. A previously ...

• Toward a Framework for Detecting Empathy in Public Sector Organizations 

  Dolamore, Stephanie (2018-04-30)

  Public organizations fulfill critical needs in communities across the United States, such as housing, environmental protection, public education, and more. In this important role, healthy public organizations should be ...

• The Impact of Varying Leader Culture Types on Organizational Change Initiatives 

  Norris, Meghan (2018-05-05)

  The nature of homeostatic organizations makes change difficult, yet organizations promote change to meet new visions, new goals and to address organizational deficiencies. Commonly used change management tools, known in ...

• The Moderating Effects of Healthy Value Congruence on the Role Stressor-Strain Relationship 

  Roach, Krystal N. (2018-08)

  This study examines the moderating effects of healthy value congruence on the relationship between role stressors (i.e., role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload) and outcome variables (i.e., burnout and turnover ...

• Productivity Strategies for Non-traditional Students 

  Royer, Suzanne (2018-07-18)

  Becoming an adult involves taking on additional roles and responsibilities, and with these come the inevitable challenge of facing competing commitments. One extreme and common case of this is the returning student, and ...

• Low‐Literacy Search Behavior: Designing to Increase Information Retrieval and Successful Task Completion on Government Means‐Based Program Websites 

  Larkins, Brittany (2018-07-17)

  The purpose of this observational study is to support existing research on low-literacy user interactions and behaviors, and to observe how low-literacy users interact with and perceive means-based government program ...

• Infotecture: Gauging Where Physical Architecture and Information Architecture Merge and Divide 

  Pollard, Sean (2018-07-18)

  This thesis examined the problem of a lack of universal information architecture (IA) design standard in the realm of information technology (IT), resulting in over-diversity, bad IA, best practices disarray, and substantialized ...

• Public Administrators’ Attitudes toward Citizen Participation: Case Evidence from the Water Resources Agency in Taiwan 

  Tseng, Yinglee (2018-07-09)

  The study aims to profoundly examine how the public administrators’ attitudes towards citizen participation (CP) could affect their decision on the implementation of a meaningful CP that would reciprocally impact on the ...

• Listening in the City: Designing Better Portable Listening Devices for Changing Environments 

  Spicer, Lance (2018)

  The focus of this thesis is how the design of portable listening devices (PLDs) can improve the interaction between urban users and their environment. First, in a literature review, topics such as the sociology of PLD use, ...

• Participatory Design and Learning Outcomes: Designing a Citizen Science Portal with Elementary School Students 

  Kulikowski, Victoria (2018-06)

  This paper explores research in Participatory Design when working with student populations. It combines existing design frameworks and integrates them with the Montessori Method and 21st Century Skills to produce learning ...

• Accessible Web Typography for the Visually Impaired 

  McCoy, Erica (2018-05)

  Background: Visual impairments affect millions of people worldwide. Accessible web typography is important in ensuring online legibility for this diverse group of users to help them maintain their independence. However, ...

• But Just Listen 

  Castro, Katrina (2018-03-16)

  “But Just Listen” is a website that explores the way stories of young voices can be told through conversations with an adult: particularly showcasing the student-teacher relationship. I created “But Just Listen” as a way ...

• Victimization and the Impact on Inmate Behavior 

  Sillaman, Alisha (2018-05-21)

  Numerous studies have examined the correlation between childhood physical and/or sexual victimization, and re-victimization later in life in the general population. However, fewer studies have explored how such victimization ...

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